Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Job Description

The Edge browser is a strategic product and a key entry point to Microsoft’s new AI ecosystem serving hundreds of millions of users daily. The Edge Engineering System team is looking for exceptional engineers to help us streamline our engineering workflows and enable our development team to develop high-quality code at light speed. We build modern, AI-first engineering workflows and ensure that our releases are regular, timely, and automatic. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Job Responsibility

Uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner
Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated changes to artifacts, reviewing all changes and applying appropriate tooling and processes with minimal guidance
Uses debugging, tests, tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions before issues occur for product features in production
Conducts incident retrospectives and identifies root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence with minimal supervision
Under minimal guidance, applies least-access principles, and uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security
Reviews product feature code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product feature
Brings insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills with minimal guidance
Reviews code in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team
Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews
Understands and provides feedback for proposals for architecture, with technical leadership from others
With minimal supervision, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option
Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, following technical leadership as applicable
Contributes to the development of design documents that support user stories and other product requirements with oversight
Develops an awareness of the current technology landscape
Escalates and shares findings from investigations with the team and owns some design decisions
Helps to ensure system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), and other requirements and expectations
Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations
Understands the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others
Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products
Creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code with minimal supervision
Executes test plans that incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases) with minimal supervision
Adds new tests to cover gaps, deleting or fixing broken tests, improving the speed, reliability, and defect localization of tests in the feature area
Builds testable code and considers testability during design for a set of features with minimal guidance
Understands the different types of tests that can be done on a particular system (e.g., unit tests), and maintains up-to-date understanding of testing architectures used both across Microsoft and across the industry
Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
Actively identifies other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others
Understands downstream interactions between systems
Contributes to collaborating with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap
Contributes to the identification of requirements for, and development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature, targeting zero-touch deployment when possible
Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight
Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants
Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises
Ensures the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility
Checks for visible evidence (e.g., audit trail) to demonstrate compliance for product areas
Develops and holds an understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft
Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are met
Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., technical program managers) and executes project plans, release plans, and work items
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and providing estimation
Escalates issues that might cause a delay
Ensures required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning with minimal guidance
Contributes to ensuring project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements
Ensures all code for a set of product/solution features is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents with minimal supervision
Calculates capacity for planning, accounting for appropriate failover and backup/restore mechanisms for disaster recovery for a set of features with minimal guidance
Makes considerations for efficient operation of a set of features after it is live with minimal supervision
Contributes to establishing a rollback plan for a set of features
Learns about and supports deployment to customers by following the correct measures to push features out to customers
Follows safe change deployment practices (e.g., ensuring that flights are set correctly) for their team to minimize adverse impact to users and other services with managerial guidance
Learns about and applies best practices for the deployment of features safely with managerial oversight and/or guidance from more experienced peers
Contributes to monitoring dependency status and ensuring that only the latest, secure versions are deployed
Identifies when rollback plans should be enacted for a product feature with direct supervision
Contributes to building deployment infrastructure to allow developers' private builds for a product feature to be tested in a production-like environment
Leveraging internal experimentation infrastructures, conducts experiments that determine the impact of changes, using feature flags/flighting in their code
Collaborates with internal partners (e.g., Data Science, product managers) to incorporate success and guard rail metrics for experimentation with minimal guidance
Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of live site services and escalates appropriately
With minimal supervision, improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents
Contributes to enabling secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities with minimal oversight
Identifies and proposes opportunities (e.g., lunch talks, automation, practices, tools) that can be leveraged to improve the live site experience with minimal guidance
Identifies areas to contribute to efforts to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms, and for allowing monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios for both live and A/B experiments for products, services, and offerings
Leverages telemetry feedback and effectiveness to contribute to improving subsequent monitoring designs with minimal guidance
Contributes to efforts to classify and analyze data with little oversight on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring), and helps to create outputs (e.g., notifications, dashboards) that improve monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios, system monitoring and/or issue identification and mitigation
Considers the privacy implications of telemetry code changes and adding new data points with minimal guidance
Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI), working on-call to monitor a system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe
Escalates issues to appropriate owners
Works with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand and determine customer/user requirements for a set of features
Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes with minimal supervision
Incorporates unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative (e.g., customer value, usage patterns, solution performance) and qualitative (e.g., accessibility, globalization) indicators of value
Understands, and begins providing feedback on, and advocating for the security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the set of features

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Go or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Go or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Go or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience contributing to Chromium and/or open-source projects built using Ninja-based build systems

Nice to have

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Go or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Go or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience contributing to Chromium and/or open-source projects built using Ninja-based build systems

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